Re: RFD: deprecate permissions-related stuff in System.Directory

Hi

returns True for execute permission on Windows, and the one in GHC 6.8.1 returns True if the filename ends in something like ".exe" or ".bat" (both are wrong, just wrong in different ways).

The GHC one is pretty wrong, since ".com" is also a valid extension for executables. Windows increased the number of executable things in 2000 (I think), and its controlled by the environment variable %PATHEXT%. On my machine: PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH i.e. vbs, wsh etc. all are exectuable. Thanks Neil